Posted on 12/19/2018 6:30:45 AM PST by Mariner
WASHINGTON—The U.S. military is preparing to withdraw its forces from Syria, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday, a move that marks an abrupt reversal of the American military strategy in the Middle East.
U.S. officials began informing partners in northeastern Syria of their plans to begin an immediate pullout of American forces from the region where they have been trying to wrap up the campaign against Islamic State, the people said.
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Good.
Good. Can we take our equipment back with us this time?
Then go Ripley on them all.
YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Get them of Afghanistan also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Send them to the border!
Happy Christmas, the war is over.
We were supporting the wrong side as it was.
Both are past due. And provide encouragement to the Koreas to function as one nation.
Great job PT!
Mariner, it looks like you posted this a nanosecond before I did. Do you know how to contact the mod to have my thread pulled? No sense in having two of these on the forum.
“And yet, I was watching some news program that claimed Trump was ratcheting up going to war with Syria. “
If the present day media was around during World War II you’d be reading headlines like, “Japs likely to make big comeback after Midway.” And, “Hitler massing new tank army after the Battle of The Bulge.”
Exactly! Up is down, down is up.
Why they are still piling in here is a good question .
Ivanka Trump is most likely the source of this disaster still being alive.
I usually address “admin moderator” in a reply, or Jim directly.
It’s early yet.
Actually, no
Hmmm...TPTB must have found some other way to pipeline or transport Qatars massive gas reserves to Europe and the FSSTs.
No longer need to transit Syria and Iraq, or I wonder if some deal has been reached among all the parties and of course, Russia.
No more ISIS!
I’ll put my thoughts on this in here as I hope to get my duplicate post pulled by the Admin Moderator
I don’t like these events at all. ISIS is not completely defeated yet and Turkey is threatening our Kurdish allies who we fought alongside to defeat ISIS. Having these troops here are also a check against growing Iranian ambitions. There are a lot of reasons to keep these 2000 troops in Syria.
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